Stop Cords from Falling Behind Your Desk

At some point, everyone with a rechargeable gadget will curse gravity as the cord falls behind their desk. This is extremely annoying, mostly because you never want to go under your desk if you don’t have to; although, you’ll probably find some other lost treasures when you do.

A friend shared this secret with me recently and it blew my mind: use binder clips to catch the cables.

I bought a pack of Medium Binder Clips at Staples (24 @ $2.79) and I weaved my cables through — they work perfectly. If your cable slides through easily, you may need to tie a very loose knot in the cable or even better, put a couple zip-ties around the cable to stop it from falling through.

[…] peripherals like an external HDD or a printer that also have their own power cords. Chad Upton from Broken Secrets has come up with a nice soultion to this problem. He bought a pack of Binder Clips and they seems […]

A slightly more expensive (but nicer looking) solution is to purchase a small USB hub. It won’t help you with power cords, but most of the electronics I need to plug in around the computer are USB devices, so this lets me keep everything up on the desk. I twist-tie the cords so they don’t make a huge mess.